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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-07-02 11:15:16 +0530
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2013-07-08 16:19:58 +0200
commitfa61a4e376d2129690c82dfb05b31705a67d6e0b (patch)
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parentKVM: PPC: Book3S: Ignore DABR register (diff)
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powerpc/kvm: Contiguous memory allocator based hash page table allocation
Powerpc architecture uses a hash based page table mechanism for mapping virtual addresses to physical address. The architecture require this hash page table to be physically contiguous. With KVM on Powerpc currently we use early reservation mechanism for allocating guest hash page table. This implies that we need to reserve a big memory region to ensure we can create large number of guest simultaneously with KVM on Power. Another disadvantage is that the reserved memory is not available to rest of the subsystems and and that implies we limit the total available memory in the host. This patch series switch the guest hash page table allocation to use contiguous memory allocator. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index e379d3fd1694..ee28d1f4b853 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
/* Initialize the hash table or TLB handling */
early_init_mmu();
+ kvm_cma_reserve();
+
/*
* Reserve any gigantic pages requested on the command line.
* memblock needs to have been initialized by the time this is